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UPDATE: Sorry if you tried to sign up on the forums overnight on 08.03.19.  Turns out there was a bug in the registration system.  I fixed it first thing this morning (08.03.20), and it should work fine now.  Please contact me if you experience any further problems.

I remember a time, many moons ago, when SuperSatellite.com had forums. Back then, I did band and event promotions for the area. phpBB was version….2…point…something. It wasn’t new, I’ll tell you that. Like 2.0.2 or something. But, the forums had a modest, bustling following, and it was well liked. Until we stopped doing that sort of thing. Those forums vanished long ago (well, technically they broke down, sat broken and unused for months, then went away, but you get the idea), and will never be back.

But, that doesn’t mean there isn’t a place for forums around here. As a matter of fact, I’ve been looking for an excuse to play around with the new phpBB3, which came out recently. Given these issues, I set up http://dotcms.supersatellite.com/ (you’ll also note the new link in my header nav for dotCMS, which can take you there) as a sort of test. One, to test the new forum software. But two, to provide some support and community forums for those people wishing to work with others on things related to dotCMS. As of now, nothing like that exists besides their mailing list. The friendly folks at dotMarketing are planning some new community sites and tools this year, but those are still a ways out. Besides, that’s really the glory of open source, isn’t it? Communities coming up on their own and doing their own thing. I’ve got it up and running, and started several forums to see how things work from their. I’m totally open to suggestions for improving the forums as a tool for the dotCMS community.

So, that’s what I got. I’ve been digging around the backside of phpBB3, and I will tell you, it is a totally different beast from 2. They’ve added quite a bit to it, and have tried to bring it up to snuff against the commercial alternatives. For free, they have done well. For now, I’ll keep it there on that subdomain, but if it gets enough traffic, I’ll probably migrate it all over to its own domain name. I’m interested in what kind of conversation this is able to drum up.